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PCS US History
Key People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jane Adams | founder of Hull House (settlement house) |
| Susan B. Anthony | women's rights leader |
| John Brown | "Bleeding Kansas", believed he was God's chosen one to end slavery; killed men |
| Andrew Carnegie | made a fortune in steel |
| Rachel Carson | Silent Spring (book about environment and pesticides) |
| Cesar Chavez | union leader; united farm workers to help migratory workers with working conditions |
| Eugene Debs | labor organizer, railroad strike |
| Henry Ford | created the assembly line |
| Betty Friedan | The Feminine Mystique - book which criticized limited roles for women |
| Samuel Gompers | labor leader; AFL; collective bargaining |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance writer who wrote about joys and difficulties of being American American |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | civil rights movement; "I have a dream..."; non-violent |
| Joseph McCarthy | senator who led crusade to investigate officials he claimed were Communist |
| Ralph Nader | Unsafe at Any Speed (book about auto safety) |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense (challenged the authority of British rule; first book to openly ask for independence from Britain) |
| Joseph Pulitzer | used yellow journalism to stir up public sentiment in favor of Spanish-American War |
| Jacob Riis | How the Other Half Lives (book describing lives of poor immigrants) |
| John Rockefeller | oil tycoon who created Standard Oil trust; Sherman Antitrust Act (outlawed monopolies) |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | First Lady; worked for women's rights and civil rights of African Americans |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | convicted of passing atomic secrets to Soviet Union |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | immigrants executed for 1920 murder at Massachusetts factory |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle (book about working conditions) |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men; Great Depression |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin (anti-slavery novel) |
| Ida Tarbell | muckraker; wrote about abuses committed by Standard Oil Trust |
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